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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1919)
4 THE BATTALION THE BATTALION Published every Thursday night by the Stu dents’ Association of the Agriculturar and Mechanical College of Texas Subscription price $1.60 per year Advertising rates on Application Member Texas Collegiate Press Association ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT EDITORIAL STAFF Tom Cheeves Editor E. E. McQuillen Associate Editor K. J. Edwards Associate Editor C. A. Castillo Associate Editor Bill King Managing Editor C. W. Thomas ... Assistant Managing Editor Art Knickerbocker Sport Editor R. V. Easley Assistant Sport Editor F. L. Bertschler Contributing Editor B. H. Frazier News Editor H. S. Hudson Social Editor Henry Fowler Cartoonist F. M. Schiwetz Cartoonist Mark Swain Staff Poet REPORTERS Company A, Arnspeiger, J.; Company B, Franke, P. C.; Company C, Sherrill. W.; Company D, Hatley, E. A.; Company E, Smith, A. B.; Company F, Williams, H. W.; Company G, Black, L. S.; Battery A, Huff, R. P.; Battery B, Roper, W. N.; Signal Corps Company A, Schlachter, E. G.; Signal Corps Company B, Dillingham, H. C.; Signal Corps Company C, Clanton, R. W.; Band Bill Frame; Campus, Mrs. D. V. Graves, Mrs. R. P. Marsteller. BUSINESS STAFF Henry Harrison Business Manager F. L. Bertschler Assistant Manager R. P. Huff Circulation A. L. Forbes Assistant Circulation Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. SET-UP What do you know about it? It is one point of the many upon which organizations are rated. It is Col onel Muller’s hobby. It is an item never forgotten for a moment by the Military Department. What is it? It is the physical appearance you present to the world. It is all that prevents you from being stoop shouldered, slouchy, dull, lazy, life less. nen-less. lacking in energy, run dw'nVia'ir'pvitgL'itjllv iiu entire time to them while they were working, and on Sunday evening he had them out to his home where the boys enjoyed a very pleasant even ing. Some of the members of the team declare that “Concept” Cook came very near going too far with the telling of wild tales about “down in Texas” in his attempt to detract the attention of those about him from the amount of popcorn he was eat ing. Cook, from all reports, had an insatiable desire for eating, excelled only by that of our dignified Colonel W. T. Burns. However, to return to the enter tainment of the team at Missouri, too much cannot be said in praising the Farm House boys of Missouri for the entertainment the team received at their hands. Besides having the team out to dinner with them one even ing, their homes were thrown open to the. boys at all times. The Farm House, by the way, is a fraternity among the agricultural students of the University of Missouri. They have their own home as any other fraternity would have and the mem bership is made up of as fine a bunch of fellows as one could wish to meet. On leaving the University of Mis souri the team went to Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. Here is where they experienced their first taste of a northern winter. This first taste was a bad one and it is needless to say as long as the boys were in the north they never got over the first impression. It was at Ames that the Non-Collegiate Stock Judging team from Texas, under the supervision of Mr. H. H. Williamson, Extension Ser vice, joined the College team. Both teams worked together at Ames, making a party of twelve in all. Coxey’s Army had nothing on this Texas bunch. A side trip was made to Ankeny, Iowa to work out on Bel- DID YOU KNOW That over 300,000 gallons of water is pumped in to the mains every 24 hours. That the actual wastage in water amounts to over $6,000. That the amount of water used on the campus is enough to supply a community of twice this number of people. That at the present rate of con sumption the water supply is not sufficient to last very much longer. Make it light on yourself by watch ing the amount of water you use. Make it light on others by using your share and no more. Make it light on everyone by using the LEAST POSSIBLE AMOUNT WITHIN REASON. f The attempt on the part of the Peace Treaty referendum committee to poll a vote among collegiate communities should meet with favor and adoption at this institution. The problem back of the movement is a great one as the future welfare of the world as well as our nation may rest in the ratification of the Peace Treaty with its League of Nations covenant. The vote will not be tak en until further plans of the cam paign are received but everyone should be interested enough to acquaint himself with all particulars and especially certain phases which have not been made clear. The vot ing strength and interest in public matters will be displayed by students and faculty members in this test and it is desirable that we make a good showing. HOLLY SPRIGS. The followng “editorialettes” re- PARKER - ASTIN Hardware Co. Carries a Select Line of Pocket Cutlery Of all kinds. Razors, Razor Strops, Electric Read ing Lamps, Themos Bottles and Many- Other Articles Needed to Complete the Equipment of a Cadet MAKE OUR STORE HEADQUARTERS WHEN IN THE CITY THANK YOU from Ames to Chicago and the team’s cheif occupation on this trip was mooching newspapers trying to find out the score of the Texas-A. and M. game. About the only incident of any importance that occured on this trip was when some one discovered the re sults of the game at College Station. The train narrowly escaped being wrecked. On arriving at Chicago the team was met at the hotel with the news that the Texas Non-Collegiate team had been beaten by only one point. That put the college team to think ing. To think of being so close and then losing. The night was a miser able night. Every man was strung to the highest pitch from the prev ious week’s work out. There was the double strain of not knowing who was on the team, for the team was not to be announced until the next morning and the knowledge that 7:30 the next morning, Saturday, November 29, brought each man face to face with the goal toward which each had been striving for four long years had no quieting effect upon his nerves. The question now was “will we be able to make it?” Early dawn found the eighteen teams who were to battle that day for the International Livestock Judg ing honors hastening toward the great pavillion of the International Live stock Exposition. The Texas team hastily forced a morsel of food down for no one could have an appetite that morning. While they were eat ing Prof. Stangel gave the standing of the men in the previous week’s work out. That standing determined who should go into the contest. Burns, Edwards, Derrick, Reed and Cook were to constitute the team and Stev ens was substitute. But there was no time for the men to comment on the results of the f 1* J 1 1 Y I t ! T ^ , ^ . Boys we certainly thank you for your very liberal patronage during the year now closing, and will I* appreciate same in the future. This is likely the last time you will read this Bat be- 1 1 fore Xmas, and I wish to thank you all for your liberal 1 1 patronage for 1919, and assure you same has been appre- 1 | ciated. If you are in need of a Xmas gift, I have them, § | and prices are guaranteed to be right. Wishing you all | | a happy Xmas and a safe return to A. and C. in 1920, and J | don’t forget I am always here to please and serve you. I J.M. CALDWELL I THE JEWELER j | BRYAN - TEXAS | nil iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiniil